13th review: Ava DuVernay doc shows prisons are the new plantations - The Guardian

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13th review: Ava DuVernay doc shows prisons are the new plantations The Guardian may seem like sloganeering from a far-left protestor, but DuVernay's effective film draws a strong, straight line from the abolition of slavery to today's mass incarceration epidemic, explaining its root cause: money. Cheap prison labour is knotted up ... and more »